Richard Nixon

They and their families have suffered too much already.

I therefore take particular pleasure in transmitting to the Congress the Fifth Annual Report of the National Endowment for the Arts.

And the extent to which its enjoyment is becoming more broadly available should be a source of great satisfaction.

There can be no constructive purpose in the continued long detention of prisoners of war.

In the coming year I will carefully examine what further steps we might take to create broader opportunities for contacts between the Chinese and American peoples, and how we might remove needless obstacles to the realization of these…

Restrictions are to be ended on American oil companies providing fuel to ships or aircraft proceeding to and from China except on Chinese-owned or Chinese-chartered carriers bound to or from North Vietnam, North Korea, or Cuba.

With our support it can continue to meet the challenges of the present and enlarge the opportunities of the future.

The Federal Government must do it:, full share in meeting that obligation, and I also urge all others who can help to do so.

We must become the managers of change.

I, Richard Nixon, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Wednesday, April 14, 1971, as Pan American Day.

As a nation, we bear a profound and very special responsibility to those who have been called upon to serve.

I welcome the public-spirited cooperation of the many groups and individuals that are making this imaginative new venture possible and urge all concerned to help make it a success.

Combined with currently available resources, these supplemental funds would raise the number of summer jobs for disadvantaged youth to 576,000.

I am pleased today to announce plans for 1971 summer programs for disadvantaged youth which will help convert these opportunities into realities.

I will transmit to the Congress, as soon as it returns from its current recess, a supplemental request for $64.3 million to provide an additional 100,000 Neighborhood Youth Corps summer employment opportunities for high school students and…

This program has been modified in important directions which will yield long range educational and career benefits to enrollees in addition to serving America.

Now, Therefore, I, Richard Nixon, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning May 16, 1971, as Small Business Week.

The time has come for me as President and as Commander in Chief of our Armed Forces to put these reports in perspective.

A start has been made, but through Federal and local determination we can do still better. We shall.

Too often in the time since President Washington met with Pierre L'Enfant in Georgetown to review plans for the new District of Columbia--180 years ago last month--the Federal responsibility to the Federal District has not been honored as…

Equally important, the decline in the District's crime rate, together with crime decreases in 21 other major cities last year, demonstrates that urban crime throughout the Nation can be successfully challenged through decisive action.

In the year ahead the Federal Government will build on these accomplishments.

We have it in our power to leave Vietnam in a way that offers a brave people a realistic hope of freedom.

I reaffirm my strong support for a Constitutional amendment granting to the District at least one full voting representative in the House of Representatives, plus such additional representation in one or both houses as the Congress may…

Let the New American Revolution which we seek for all Americans begin here, in the Nation's Capital--and now, in 1971.